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Ubuntu: USN-5440-1 (CVE-2022-1552): PostgreSQL vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5440-1 (CVE-2022-1552): PostgreSQL vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2022
Created
05/27/2022
Added
05/25/2022
Modified
05/25/2022

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From USN-5440-1:

Alexander Lakhin discovered that PostgreSQL incorrectly handled the security restricted operation sandbox when a privileged user is maintaining another user's objects. An attacker having permission to create non-temp objects can use this issue to execute arbitrary commands as the superuser.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-10
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-12
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-13
  • ubuntu-upgrade-postgresql-14

References

  • USN-5440-1
  • CVE-2022-1552
  • SUSE-SU-2022:1804-1

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